Dr. Ramesh Glückler

Photo of the "Paleo" board game box, which has a mammoth drawn on it.

Post-work round of the #Paleo board game with fellow researchers of our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #paleoecology group - we survived the wolf pack attacks and made it to the next level 🐺🔥

Thumbs up for unexpected Subnautica reference 😄

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

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Inter and intra-continental smoke transport impacts air quality and therefore, human health.

A single bad fire season can have significant impacts in terms of premature death.

A report on the 2023 fire season in Canada
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(h/t @aberron.bsky.social )

Hydroclimatic Rebound Drives Extreme Fire in California's Non‐Forested Ecosystems Hydroclimatic rebound occurs when unusually wet periods are followed by intense drying, or vice versa, creating sharp moisture swings. We show that this process drives extreme fire activity in Califo...

New in Global Change Biology: Hydroclimatic rebound—wet periods fueling vegetation growth, followed by rapid drying—drives extreme fires in California’s non-forested biomes. Findings improve early warning & fire forecasts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

Beautiful eight lake photos from our study area <3

New preprint alert 📢

We present a dataset of modern hydrochemistry, macrophyte diversity, and discuss the relationships to the surrounding terrestrial environment from 66 climate-sensitive lakes from Yakutia💧

Available for open discussion at: doi.org/10.5194/egus...

#permafrost #alaas #sedDNA

Two images, one of a modern university building with the logo of Utrecht University on it, and one with a rural scene of a water canal and meadows and a windmill.

Today I am joining @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher! Looking forward to evaluating long-term boreal #wildfires and #vegetation responses to past climatic changes, contributing paleoecological insights to an effort of improving ESMs and their future projections! 🔥🌲

The fact that this publication is fully published online right now is wild. Publishers need to be held accountable for failing to prevent AI sci-slop like this being published in their journals. It undermines any legitimacy whatsoever.

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brief reminder that you can find a truly #decentralized platform, with no central authority able to just lock you out, over at #Mastodon:
joinmastodon.org

#Mississippi

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

Europe's wildfires worst on record - with a month of the burning season to go

- More than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and toxic air pollutants

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Intensifying Fire Season Aridity Portends Ongoing Expansion of Severe Wildfire in Western US Forests Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests over recent decades. However, high-severity fire—fire that kills all or most trees—is also an important metric of fire activity given its d...

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Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Portugal Fights Severe Wildfires – DW – 08/15/2025 Innovative prevention policies are being implemented in Portugal to combat devastating forest fires.

Very nice reporting on Portugal's leading role in adapting to more severe #wildfire seasons. Recommendation to watch (airing times in linked article) 🔥🌍🧪

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!

We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

Application review starts Aug 31

This site never fails to impress! Great that you could work there and study it in person!

No #fieldwork this year, so time to look back. 2017 was my fieldwork at the #Batagay Megaslump in #Siberia, the largest known retrogressive thaw slump on earth. A prime example of abrupt #permafrost thaw that exposes ancient permafrost. In two photographs, see ellipses with people for scale.

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
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#ClimateChange #Wildfires

Very glad to see this hot 🔥 journal! It fills what for me always felt like a gap in the fire research journal landscape. Happy to follow along and consider for future publications! #pyrogeography #wildfires 🌏🧪⚒️

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...

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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".

Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Amidst all the news today, I missed that congressmen from Wisconsin and Minnesota sent Canada a letter demanding that they prevent wildfire smoke from entering the USA

Me and Izabella Baisheva standing in front of a conference banner.

Me standing in front of a big screen showing the first slide of my conference presentation.

It's been fantastic at the @pages-ipo.bsky.social Open Science Meeting 2025 in #Shanghai! While it had to be online in 2021 due to the pandemic, we could now meet many great researchers in person.
Find a preprint for the study I presented here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#GeoSky #OSM2025 🧪⚒️🌏🔥

The outside of a research building, with it's name written on it in Chinese.

Panoramic view from a hill towards the northern part of Beijing, green trees in the foreground with buildings in traditional Chinese architecture and more urban city skyline further in the distance.

Arrived to #Beijing together with Izabella Baisheva for a research visit at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences - looking forward to the collaboration and the next few months! Thanks to CAS-PIFI and the Helmholtz Association for enabling this visit! 🧪🌏⚒️ #GeoSky

We were interviewed about our PhD hats by the fantastic @mack-baysinger.bsky.social! Check out the Cryosphere Caps miniseries - thanks for the opportunity to discuss these lovely hats!

🧪🌎⚒️ #wildfires #permafrost #yakutia #dog

YouTube video by Abramorama DEEP RISING | OFFICIAL TRAILER

Timely recommendation: this great documentary on deep-sea #seabed #mining, which was shown at #EGU 2024 GeoCinema: youtu.be/sFVBqg41jms?...
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So...this has become an anti-science propaganda account?

Full Statement of Robert Schlögl on academic freedom in the USA.

We stand united with US academia in defence of science!

The Humboldt Foundation is deeply concerned about the growing threats to #AcademicFreedom in the USA.
📜 Our president Robert Schlögl calls for global solidarity to protect the science systems:

PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...